Bamboo Source located just south of Houston TX. We specialize in cold hardy clumping (non-invasive) types. All of our bamboo is container grown from 1 gal to 100 gallon containers. Local Deliveries available.

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Clumper/Runner

Bambusa

Genus of tropical and subtropical clumping bamboos, usually giant, with numerous branches at a node, one or three much larger than the rest. New shoots appear in late summer or fall in their native areas.

Bambusachungii var. barbelatta

22.00

1.50

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Grows to about 3/4 the size, with lighter ring of hair around new culm nodes and looser culm sheath blade.

Shorter, less erect. "This one is from a Bambusa textilis seedling that Roy Works sold to
Rockledge Gardens in Florida and they have been selling it for a good number
of years as a dwarf version of textilis and it has remained about half size
of a regular textilis."

Medium to giant runners which have a distinct groove above pairs of unequal branches at mid-culm nodes. They shoot in spring.

Phyllostachysaurea

GOLDEN, FISHPOLE BAMBOO

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The most commonly cultivated bamboo in the U.S., easily identified by one to several short internodes at the base of some of its culms. It is most invasive in areas with warm summers. Culm may grow to 3 inches diameter in favorable conditions.

Culms turn jet black after the first 6 months to one year. Popular because of its graceful habit and the sharp accent of its culm color. Said to grow larger in northern climates. It is not clear whether there is significant difference between some of the cultivars